What's different between Apple and Google passes

Apple and Google do not offer the same things on a pass. That is why the Your wallet pass panel has an Apple tab and a Google tab, each with its own boxes. You fill in both.

1. Open Wallet.

2. Under the pass designer, open the fold What differs between Apple and Google.

Only on an Apple pass

• A line of your own on the lock screen near each place you pin. See What is a location alert?.
• A square picture at the top right, and up to three small pairs beside it.
• Three colours: the face, the words and the little labels.
• A whole back of the pass, for everything that does not fit the front.
• A moment when the pass becomes relevant, so the phone offers it by itself.
• A background picture behind the whole pass, on iPhones running iOS 27 or later.
• A switch that hides the Share button.

Only on a Google pass

• A wide banner picture across the front.
• Picture rows, and a list of links that each carry their own words.
• A button on the front that opens one address.
• A valid-from and valid-until window, with Google's own reminder.
• A switch that asks the phone to refuse a screenshot of the pass.

Notifications also name you differently. On Apple they carry the name in Who the phone says this pass is from. On Google they carry the pass's title, from the box The title.